SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs alms box Nielson in 1919 for biology

Nielson in 1919 for biology and hygiene class

with a red painted steel gnomon (the part that casts a shadow)

With a large ball on top echoing the one inside

who made similarly unflinching paintings and prints of boxers in the ring

SOLD Much Loved Sweetly Frowning Antique Jointed Man with Tenderly Added Legs alms box Nielson in 1919 for biologyThis frowning fellow is one of a number of wonderful old carved articulated figures today, him straight out of an amazing West Coast collection of folk self taught outsider art. For me carved figures like are as close to animate as a handmade thing can be, and I always love the process of photographing them a sort of "getting to know you" experience, through which their very individual personalities (and souls, I would say!) reveal themselves,